[Monotone-devel] Re: Server broken

[Richard Levitte]

Server is back up, all data intact.

Cheers,
Richard

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Richard Levitte <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'll admit, this is starting to be tiresome.  My server has been a tad
> problematic lately, and it's getting there again.
>
> This time, the disk has broken in a pretty serious way.  Lots of file
> names seem to be disconnected from their inodes, giving me listings
> like this:
>
> # ls -l /var/log
> ...
> -????????? ? ?        ?               ?                ? syslog.4.gz
>
> That's not something that makes me joyful.
>
> I have a spare disk, same brand and model.  I can only hope that the
> current disk was some kind of extreme and that it doesn't speak for
> that brand or model.
>
> What I'll do next is to move the server home within the week that
> comes (in the little time that I have, this had to happen right before
> a busy week, didn't it, eh Murphy? ;-)), check things through, copy
> what can be copied to the spare disk, take the rest from backups (the
> backup is good), move disks around and take it back to co-location,
> then cross my fingers.
>
> All this makes me think that this could be a good reason to pick up an
> idea that I recall was mentioned here before, a way to have a number
> of machines cooperating in some kind of loose monotone cluster.
>
> As it is now, I'm reachable on this address.  My server may be up, but
> my imap folder is partly trash, making it difficult to do something
> useful with it.
>
> --
> Richard Levitte
>



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Richard Levitte